Swing it!

We're twelve days into spring, and my energy has likewise sprung. Yesterday's weather was a comfortable 10 degree-celsius, much like the morning weather in the mountains of Benguet.

Yes, it was a perfect day to catch the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's SWING SWING SWING concert at the Roy Thompson Hall, down at Front and John streets (by King street).

Swing Swing Swing featured Anne Hampton Callaway as vocalist; she, who was once nominated for a Tony for her performance in the Broadway hit Swing.

The Toronto Symphony delighted the audience with, among others, Swing Swing Swing by John Williams, Cole Porter's Begin the Beguine, From this Moment On and Let's Fall in Love, Gershwin's Embraceable You, Duke Ellington's Solitude and R.Rodger's With a Song in my Heart.

It was hard not to snap one's fingers and tap one's foot during the two-hour long concert.
And not far from Roy Thompson Hall, at the Royal Alexandria Theatre, another hit musical, Dirty Dancing was playing, which would have its last run on April 5th.

Aaahh... jazz!